A quiet morning in the Tahoe pines turns into a nightmare when Rhys Taylor's chainsaw hits something that shouldn't be there.

A steel spike?buried decades ago?explodes the chain in a spray of metal and blood, leaving Taylor fighting for his life in a Reno ICU. But the sabotage doesn't end in the woods.

Minutes after surgery, the hospital goes dark. Monitors fail. Ventilators flicker. Patient records vanish behind a skull-and-crossbones ransom screen. A voice over the intercom claims control of the facility?and demands millions in Bitcoin, or people start dying.

With Taylor unconscious and machines running on failing batteries, Kat Taylor is forced back into the world she thought she'd left behind: cyber-warfare, hidden backdoors, and enemies who know exactly where to hit. As she tears into the malicious code, the truth becomes impossible to ignore?this isn't just a ransom attack. It's a coordinated strike. And someone inside the hospital opened the door.

While Kat races to stop a digital killer, Digger Graves follows the human trail... straight into the dark heart of a mobile command post and a syndicate that's not after money?it's after something worth billions.

Because the hospital was only the test.

And the next target won't be full of patients.

It'll be the whole city.

SPIKED is a high-stakes Rhys Taylor thriller where old sins hide in living wood, modern predators hide in plain sight, and one wrong move can pull the plug on everything